The Dickinson press., 1887-11-26

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Trail is the banner prohibition county
of Dakota. Every precinct gave q ma
jority against the sale.
Vice-Prcsident Cakes, of the Northern
Pacific, denies the statements in regard
to n consolidation with the Wisconsin
Central.
Tom Lowry, according to q telegram
from Aberdeen, has succeeded in floating
bonds for $50 miles of the Aberdeen, Bis
marck & Northwestern railroad.
The Duluth chamber of mmer
board of trade and produce exchange will
| send Il committee to Washington this
winter to lay before congress the interests
of Duluth as affected by waterways.
Fort Wayne, Ind, is thrcated with q
water famine.
Miss Willard was elected president of
the w. C. I. U.
The National Base Ball league has &C.
ccptcd the modified contract proposed by
the brotherhood.
Mr.. Wharton Barker says the reports
via San Francisco of the revocation by
China of the American banking privi-
ileges is unfounded.
The steamer City of Green Bay was to-
tally destroyed by fire at Green Bay. No
lives lost. The boat wa valued at $l6,-
600, and was insured for $11, 900. Her
cargo consisted of SIG, 600 worth of mer-
chandise.
The masters strike at Milwaukee is
likely to assume large proportions. The
brewers have decided not to handle malt
made by nOn-union wOrkmen, and us
three brewing establishments have de-
clined to yield to this stipulation a strike
of the brewers employed in themis looked
for.
The banks of Des Moines have organ
lied u clearinghouse and will begin to do
u regular clearinghouse business Dec. l.
Workmcn, while making temporary re-
pairs upon Il large Touring mill at Peru,
Ind, discovered among the wheat on the
first and second floors two dynamite cart
ridges, either one with power sufficient to
destroy the building.
John Williams and Preston Rush, both
colorcd, became engaged in a row at keo-
kuk, Iowa, over n nickel which the latter
claimed the former owed him. Rush
knocked Williams down, and the latter
pulled a knife from his pocket and
stabbed Rush to the heart.
Ranchmcn near Denver, Col, have suf-
fered heavily by the fire which burned
200 square miles Friday, in Grant county.
International six-day go-as-you-please
race was started at Philadelphia Sunday
night. There were thirteen starters.
The Wisconsin Veterans home,
recently established at Waupaca, is ready
for the reception of inmates.
The Northern Pacific will fight the
order of the state railroad commission to
reduce passenger rates to three cents per
mile.
A gang of counterfeiters were arrested
near Port Huron, Mich, and two expen-
sive plans for making bogus silver dollars
were found in their possession.
1t is reported that n third of the wheat
which will leave the farms of the coun-
try during the entire year was sold in
New York city during the last six days.
Fire broke out in the seventeenth level
of the Calmet e. Hecla mine at Ishpem-
ing, Mich. The mine has been closed
and chemicals will be used to extinguish
the flames.
1t is reported that Russia is massing
SOC, 600 troops on the German and Aus
trian frontiers.
No disturbances were INDUCED in in
London Sunday. The force of police at
Trafalgar square was not as large Is on
the Sunday previous.
1t is reported that Mr.. Hall, for so
many years United States minister to
Central America, will retire at an early
date, and be succeeded by q gentleman
formerly attached to the American lega-
ton in England.
The homeless newsboys and newsgirls
of Chicago were given ngood, substantial
Thanksgiving Dinner ut the First cavalry
armory Sunday. After the eating was
over the children were favored with an
address by Hon. Leonard SWEET.
Grinnell has inaugurated a crusade
against Chicago bucket shops.
The origin of the Barnum fire is still
mystery. The general belief is it was
incendiary.
Herr Most says the gibbet will here
after be to the anarchists what the cross
is to the Christian.
There was frost and thin ice at Tamps
Tuesday morning, closing the epidemic
which had already about died out.
The Illinois Central is expected t.
reach SlOuH rallS, ~. L., OeC. y. IL Il
estimated that it will cost $25, 1000 to fill
/. up the Illinois Central yards now build.
ing.
i The gross earnings of the Manitoba
road for October were $1,061, 1888, agains
, $4,000 last year, m increase of BILL,
, 816. October earnings of the Minnesot,
: g. Northwestern were $500, 1874 agains
$780, 1913 last year.
, The circulation of standard silver dol
lars has increased by nearly 5 $4,000, 00t
since July 1.
: In Southern Arizona business of al
: kinds is increasing in volume, and tn
, mining and cattle industries are assunl
ing large proportions.
The interstate commerce commission
are engaged in hearing complaints agains
a number of railroads for discriminating
in favor of the Standard Oil company.
The Grand Army people at Des Nome!
have made arrangements for a grand ex
cursion to Marshalltown on the BOT
: inst, to attend the formal dedication o
2 the new soldiers'home at that place.
t Last weeks increase in the stock O
wheat in sight in this country amounte
a to 1,617, 756 bushels. The stock OF cor,
for the same time suffered q decrease Q
= 1868, 79S bushels, and oats Is, 100 bushels
= The stock of wheat on last Saturday wa
u 29,812,24S bushels, and of oats $3.50, SO
bushels.
d To Gather in Recruits.